Instead of Prime Minister Robert Golob’s speech to the European Parliament being a statesmanlike one, which could then have been used to promote Slovenia, the Prime Minister chose to focus on his personal story, the story about Slovenia’s internal political affairs, and the people from Slovenia who are “not ours.” Since Golob did not use …
The employee of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, Boris Vasev, who is employed as part of the MMC web portal, is known for his extremist statements and actions. Namely, he once compared a photograph of the then-Prime Minister Janez Janša with a scythe to a photograph of the Serbian war criminal Vojislav Šešelj as …
“To put things plainly… You are f***ed: when you get 50 percent of nutrition strategists out of an aggressive 1 percent of the population,” the political commentator Tomaž Štih responded to the news that more than half of Golob’s Strategic Council for Nutrition is made up of sworn vegans, with no representatives of farmers and …
“In the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), we have proposed that all those engaged in economic activity, regardless of which energy products they use, should receive financial aid to mitigate the effects of the energy crisis. The Golob coalition rejected the proposal to the detriment of the economy!” the largest opposition party …
As we have already reported, the Ljubljana basin has been quite shaken up in the past few weeks over the C0 Connecting Canal project, which will carry wastewater from the municipalities of Vodice and Medvode to the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant Ljubljana – Zalog. According to many experts, the construction of the canal in the …
“Despite the very high total amount of planned aid to the economy, the representatives of the economy and employers clearly warn that the Proposal for the Law on Aid to the Economy to Mitigate the Effects of the Energy Crisis does not solve the basic problem of high offers for electricity leases for 2023, as …
Eva Irgl warned that the government’s economic measures turned out to be inadequate Read More »
Gorazd Pučnik, son of one of the fathers of the Slovenian state, Jože Pučnik, recently received the Order of Extraordinary Merit, the highest state decoration, on his father’s behalf. The decoration had already been awarded in 2006 by the then-President of the Republic, Janez Drnovšek, who awarded it to Pučnik posthumously when Slovenia celebrated 15 …
The web portal Oštro is considered to be one of the most trusted informants and distorters of facts by the US billionaire megacorporations that own the social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and until recently, Twitter). This web portal often twists the facts to get the ideological message it wants to convey (a practice invented on …
Local Slovenian police stations have always been a kind of a time machine, where time seemed to stop in 1975. Pictures of the dictator Tito hang on the walls, and some older police officers in senior positions reminisce nostalgically about the days when they were part of the communist version of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. …
The Bank of Slovenia has lowered its forecast for Slovenia’s economic growth. While in June, it had forecast growth of 5.8 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, this year’s growth will actually reach 5 percent, falling to 0.8 percent next year. Inflation will remain high and is expected to start moderating in the …
With the resignation of Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar, the more left-wing media also noticed that the criminal investigators were looking into the privatisation of the Gen-I energy company and Robert Golob’s business operations in the Balkans. And they have been doing this for quite a long time. But now, thanks to the resignation of the …
A journalist of the Demokracija magazine (Democracy) spoke to Romana Tomc, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), about the events of the past year, both in the domestic and the European arena; on how the European Parliament views the developments in Slovenia; what marked …
No Other Country Is Raising Taxes In These Times, Unlike The Golob Government Read More »
